From Thursday, January 4 through Sunday, January 7, 2018, ADS will again follow the Linguistic Society of America westward, this time to Salt Lake City, for our annual meeting at the Grand America Hotel.

Monday, August 14, is the deadline for proposals for 20-minute presentations. After successfully implementing a new procedure for 2017, we will continue it this year. Abstracts will be submitted, reviewed and processed for ADS2018 via the EasyChair system using the following Web site:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ads2018.

Proposals will be judged anonymously by a team of ADS members. If your proposal is accepted, you’ll be asked for an abstract of no more than 200 words for the LSA program.

This year a poster session will again be available. If you prefer to present at a poster session, please say so with your proposal.

Presenters must be current members of the American Dialect Society. Do not send the same proposal to both ADS and LSA.

Panels: If you wish to propose a panel session of an hour, please get in touch now with Program Chair Michael Adams at madams1448@aol.com.

Audio-visual equipment: An LCD projector with sound will be available for all presentations, along with a microphone. If you will need other equipment, please say so when you send your proposal.

Scheduling: The meeting will follow this schedule:

Thursday, January 4: Executive Council and annual business meeting in afternoon. Program session in late afternoon, followed by Word of the Year nominations.

Friday, January 5: Program sessions in early morning and all afternoon. Poster session in late morning. Words of the Year vote and Bring-Your-Own-Book reception in early evening.

Saturday, January 6: Program sessions in morning and afternoon; Annual Luncheon in between. Luncheon speaker: Guy Bailey, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. “The Life and Growth of Language in an Age of Catastrophic Events.”

Sunday, January 7: Program sessions in morning.

Session chairs: If you’re interested in chairing a session, let the Executive Secretary know at americandialect@mac.edu. Tell him any preference you have for time or topic.

Travel grants for students: Six travel grants of $500 each will be awarded to students whose papers have been chosen for the program. Furthermore, all students who are members of ADS are invited to attend the Annual Luncheon for free.

Travel grant for ADS member: The seventh annual Audrey Duckert Memorial Travel Award of $500 to attend the Annual Meeting will be given to an ADS member. The recipient will be chosen by ADS President Sali A. Tagliamonte. Applications in the form of a letter to President Tagliamonte will be due after the program for the Annual Meeting has been determined. Audrey Duckert was a long-time member of ADS and co-founder of the Dictionary of American Regional English.

Hotel and registration: ADS members will be eligible to reserve rooms and register for the meeting at LSA member rates. For details see the website linguisticsociety.org.

Future LSA-ADS meetings: 2019: New York City, Jan. 3-6, Sheraton New York Times Square.

WOTY: As we have done for a quarter of a century, we will choose candidates for Word of the Year on Thursday and vote for our WOTY the next day, with our Bring-Your-Own-Book exhibit and reception immediately following. Nominations for Words of the Year can be submitted all year long to woty@americandialect.org.